Andrea Sánchez Blanco

Software Engineer

About Me

I’m passionate about digital technologies, especially those related to wireless communications devices. Being in love with logic, mathematics, and physics since I was a High School junior, I’ve become fluent at problem solving and at developing (writing) and disentangling (reading) complex coding in formal languages.

Education

BSc in Computer Science

University of Vigo (2012-present)

Awarded with ISEP scholarship for a one-year exchange program in CSUEB, California during 2016 - 2017

Awarded with Erasmus+ scholarship for a one-year exchange program in MAMK, Finland during 2014 - 2015

BSc in Information Technology

University of Applied Sciences of Mikkeli (2014-2016)

Thesis about Development of hybrid mobile applications using Ionic Framework graded 5/5, available in theseus.fi

Work Experience

I worked with two IT university employees and we were responsible for fixing the computer related problems that may arised on campus. My tasks during the placement were to format, configure, scan for viruses, fix possible software or hardware harms and install software like the official university antivirus into computers, among others PC related activities.

Bachelor's Thesis

The purpose of the current study is to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of web-based hybrid apps. This thesis explains from the beginnings of mobile phones how and why it has been created this solution, and how mobile’s history has evolved to need an intermediate approach. It is also studied the general principles of good mobile user interfaces, in order to create a full good user experience from appearance to performance and usability, and how to implement the server side in an Ionic mobile application.

These have been done providing a general context about the first mobile phones to the latest ones, going through the different mobile OSs and focusing on an intermediate approach, hybrid web-based apps. After that I have explained Ionic Framework and the User Interface guidelines. Finally I have documented my practical part, associating it with the theoretical part, and explaining how I did the server side implementation on my app.

The conclusions I took are more general than I thought at the beginning. I have studied this solution with Ionic Framework, with which I have had an overall good experience. However, at the end I wondered if this intermediate solution is actually a solution or a patch for solving the developer prob- lems, while hindering user experience.